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Cajun gumbo
One of the good things we brought back to Texas from our twenty odd
years in Louisiana is gumbo. Basically for the folks out there that don't know about it is pretty much a stew or soup. This one is link sausage and chicken, many gumbos are made that way routinely. The beauty of it for us is we grew the onions and garlic and made the rue from scratch, you might have to look up rue, basically cooked flour with spices in a skillet, some call it roux but most don't where we learned. She had a bowl for her lunch but I'm holding off until the evening meal as I'm trying to get below 200 lbs again. I'm not that fat but the 9 lbs over 200 annoys me a lot. With the disabilities I have with my legs and arms I do need to get some weight off. I can remember when I weighed 145 lbs in the Navy, and weighed 160 when I had to climb chemical towers and prefer to get as low as I can. It is starting to be a wee cooler here than mid-summer, when we had temps over 100F frequently. Still hitting some days up to 90 or 91 but we have had some nice cooling winds. The fall garden is all planted, the kumquats won't turn yellow for a few months more but they are getting bigger. The fig tree is done for the year as is the pear tree. Pear tree still has some small fruit on the limbs but I don't expect them to mature. The attempt to grow blue berries didn't work, they died. I am going to take out the soil, etc. in the one foot high container and mix it up again and am thinking, come spring, of planting blackberries and have them climb a lattice. As blackberries are native to this area they should do okay. This time I think I am going to get thorn less berries as I don't like to be pricked that much. George |
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Cajun gumbo
On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 4:39:43 PM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote:
One of the good things we brought back to Texas from our twenty odd years in Louisiana is gumbo. Basically for the folks out there that don't know about it is pretty much a stew or soup. This one is link sausage and chicken, many gumbos are made that way routinely. The beauty of it for us is we grew the onions and garlic and made the rue from scratch, you might have to look up rue, basically cooked flour with spices in a skillet, some call it roux but most don't where we learned. She had a bowl for her lunch but I'm holding off until the evening meal as I'm trying to get below 200 lbs again. I'm not that fat but the 9 lbs over 200 annoys me a lot. With the disabilities I have with my legs and arms I do need to get some weight off. I can remember when I weighed 145 lbs in the Navy, and weighed 160 when I had to climb chemical towers and prefer to get as low as I can. It is starting to be a wee cooler here than mid-summer, when we had temps over 100F frequently. Still hitting some days up to 90 or 91 but we have had some nice cooling winds. The fall garden is all planted, the kumquats won't turn yellow for a few months more but they are getting bigger. The fig tree is done for the year as is the pear tree. Pear tree still has some small fruit on the limbs but I don't expect them to mature. The attempt to grow blue berries didn't work, they died. I am going to take out the soil, etc. in the one foot high container and mix it up again and am thinking, come spring, of planting blackberries and have them climb a lattice. As blackberries are native to this area they should do okay. This time I think I am going to get thorn less berries as I don't like to be pricked that much. George We're still getting figs here in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. I've never had any luck with berries. The blueberries died out although I gave them the proper pH and constant care. I found some wild red raspberries growing on stone cliff faces while kayaking and tried transplanting them but they didn't take. The wild blackberries are great in some years, but when I tried transplanting them to a domesticated row, they all died. I guess I'm just not a berry guy. Paul |
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Cajun gumbo
On 9/29/2017 8:49 PM, Pavel314 wrote:
On Wednesday, September 27, 2017 at 4:39:43 PM UTC-4, George Shirley wrote: One of the good things we brought back to Texas from our twenty odd years in Louisiana is gumbo. Basically for the folks out there that don't know about it is pretty much a stew or soup. This one is link sausage and chicken, many gumbos are made that way routinely. The beauty of it for us is we grew the onions and garlic and made the rue from scratch, you might have to look up rue, basically cooked flour with spices in a skillet, some call it roux but most don't where we learned. She had a bowl for her lunch but I'm holding off until the evening meal as I'm trying to get below 200 lbs again. I'm not that fat but the 9 lbs over 200 annoys me a lot. With the disabilities I have with my legs and arms I do need to get some weight off. I can remember when I weighed 145 lbs in the Navy, and weighed 160 when I had to climb chemical towers and prefer to get as low as I can. It is starting to be a wee cooler here than mid-summer, when we had temps over 100F frequently. Still hitting some days up to 90 or 91 but we have had some nice cooling winds. The fall garden is all planted, the kumquats won't turn yellow for a few months more but they are getting bigger. The fig tree is done for the year as is the pear tree. Pear tree still has some small fruit on the limbs but I don't expect them to mature. The attempt to grow blue berries didn't work, they died. I am going to take out the soil, etc. in the one foot high container and mix it up again and am thinking, come spring, of planting blackberries and have them climb a lattice. As blackberries are native to this area they should do okay. This time I think I am going to get thorn less berries as I don't like to be pricked that much. George We're still getting figs here in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. I've never had any luck with berries. The blueberries died out although I gave them the proper pH and constant care. I found some wild red raspberries growing on stone cliff faces while kayaking and tried transplanting them but they didn't take. The wild blackberries are great in some years, but when I tried transplanting them to a domesticated row, they all died. I guess I'm just not a berry guy. Paul Look at some of the veggie and berry catalogs for your area, lots of them have been grown to fit in different climates and dirt. I look at them on line and then look at what other people in my area have to say about them. Works pretty good most of the time. George |
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